Area tries to hook stimulus dollars

Money would help to fund local waterway projects

5:58 AM,
Apr. 9, 2009

FUNDING NEEDED: Kristen Jurs assists the DNR with the electro-shocking the fish for a survey at Cuttle Creek in Marysville. A Cuttle Creek project to restore the shoreline is among those for which local officials are seeking stimulus dollars.

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ANGELA MULLINS
Times Herald

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At least five local projects are in the running to receive a chunk of $170 million in federal stimulus money for restoring coastal and fish habitats.

The projects, identified by local officials working to protect waterways, dot the St. Clair River from Port Huron to Harsens Island and are some of about $3 billion worth of requests the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has received for the money.